Art & Photo Calls

TheArtList.com is the leading online resource for art and photo calls. Over 5000 galleries and organizations submit calls to us each year. If you are an Artist or Photographer looking for more exposure, or a Galley wanting to promote a call, TheArtList.com is for you.

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TARTGET PRIZE. International Painting Contest 2026 - Extended Deadline: June 14, 2026

Following the success of its first edition, the TARTGET PAINTING PRIZE returns as one of Europe's fastest-growing international painting competitions. With more than €90,000 in awards and distinctions, the competition offers artists worldwide the opportunity to gain international recognition, exhibit their work, and connect with collectors, galleries, and art professionals. Why Participate? • More than 500 finalist positions • Around 100 selected artworks exhibited at Ateneo de Madrid • More than 50 awards and distinctions • Four artist residencies in Spain • International promotion and media exposure. Main Awards: • Gold Tartget Award: €12,000 • Silver Tartget Award: €6,000 • Bronze Tartget Award: €4,000 • Fusion Tartget Award: €4,000 • Drawing Award: €4,000 • Watercolour Award: €4,000 • Multiple acquisition prizes. The competition is open to artists of all nationalities, ages, and professional levels. All styles are welcome, including figurative, realism, contemporary, abstract, conceptual, mixed media, drawing, and watercolour. Finalists will exhibit at the prestigious Ateneo de Madrid, one of Spain's most historic cultural institutions. Apply online: see links below. Awards: over $100,000 in prizes. Extended Registration Deadline: June 14, 2026

For more information: https://www.theartlist.com/tartget-prize-international-painting-contest-2026

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June 2026 Artist of the Month - 3rd Place Winner: Lisa Clark

3rd Place Winner: Lisa Clark

🌐 https://lisakclark.carrd.co/

Feeling inspired this summer? You could be next. Enter the Artist of the Month Contest for a chance to be featured on TheArtList.com and win a Jerry’s Artarama gift certificate.

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June 2026 Artist of the Month - 2nd Place Winner: Lindy Blosser

2nd Place Winner: Lindy Blosser

🌐 www.lindyblosser.com

Feeling inspired this summer? You could be next. Enter the Artist of the Month Contest for a chance to be featured on TheArtList.com and win a Jerry’s Artarama gift certificate.

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June 2026 Artist of the Month 1st Place Winner: Steve Jensen

June 2026 Artist of the Month

1st Place Winner: Steve Jensen

https://stevejensenstudios.com

June marks the start of a vibrant new season - a time of growth, exploration, and endless creative possibilities. This month, we're thrilled to celebrate Steve Jensen, an artist whose work captures imagination through striking visuals, bold expression, and a unique artistic voice.

Explore Steve's portfolio and read his exclusive Artist of the Month interview here: https://www.theartlist.com/featured-artists/2026-steve-jensen

A new month brings fresh inspiration. Could you be our next featured artist? Enter the Artist of the Month Contest for a chance to be showcased on TheArtList.com and win a Jerry’s Artarama gift certificate.

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Arts Center in Orange - As Much Truth As One Can Bear

A Juried Exhibition on James Baldwin’s proposition for Truth. February 5 through March 27, 2027. Exhibition Title: As Much Truth as One Can Bear. Entry Fee: $20. Prize Money: Up to $3500 in awards. The Arts Center in Orange, VA, is accepting submissions from artists of African American heritage for its upcoming Juried Exhibition centered on James Baldwin’s essay and proposition about Truth, As Much Truth as One Can Bear. This exhibition invites artists of African American heritage to explore the limits of perception, the weight of lived experience, and the tension between what is revealed and what is resisted. Truth, in this context, is not singular or stable. It is layered, emotional, historical, and often uncomfortable. The works in this juried exhibition engage with identity, race, memory, justice, love, and survival. Some works confront directly; others unfold quietly. Together, they create a space where viewers are asked not only to observe, but to reckon. We Are Seeking Work That: Explores personal or collective truths; Engages with visibility, silence, or resistance; Responds to cultural, political, or emotional realities; and Challenges viewers to reflect or reconsider. Accepted Media: Painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, mixed media, installation, digital work, text-based work, video, textile and interdisciplinary practices Submission Guidelines.

Deadline: October 01, 2026

For more information: https://www.theartlist.com/arts-center-in-orange-as-much-truth-as-one-can-bear

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Colors of Humanity Art Gallery: "BLACK AND WHITE" 2026 Call for Entry - Online Art Show

Sometimes a monochrome pallet can say more than a full spectrum of color and creates a striking contrast. We would like to see your work that is composed of black, white, and shades in between. PAY IT FORWARD- We will be donating 10% of all entry fees from this show to Heart to Heart International. HHI strengthens communities through improving health access and providing humanitarian development worldwide. Colors of Humanity Art Gallery is not affiliated with HHI. ELIGIBILITY- All artists 18 and over may enter. JUDGING CRITERIA- Originality, interpretation, quality, demonstration of ability, and usage of medium. JUROR- Janelle Cogan. ENTRY FEE- $20 for 1 or 2 pieces (You may enter more than once if you have additional works). AWARDS- A Cash prize will be given to the Best of Show winner. Additionally, the Best of Show winner will be featured. His or her artwork will be on the cover of the show, and it will be largely displayed with an article about them and their work. The Best of Show winner will also receive a free one year Featured Artist Membership. Other winners will be featured and have similar recognition. All accepted works will be displayed with the artist's name, title of work, and a link back to their website, or email address if they do not have a website. SALES- All sales are conducted solely between the artist and the buyer. Colors of Humanity Art Gallery does not handle any part of the sale or collect any commission.

Deadline: June 15, 2026

For more information: https://www.theartlist.com/colors-of-humanity-art-gallery-black-and-white-2026-call-for-entry-online-art-show

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Black Box Gallery - Photo Shoot: 2026

Black Box Gallery is excited to announce an open themed juried group photo show. Show us your favorite photographic shots! Open to all themes and ideas, all styles and genres, all perspectives on crafsmanship and photographic creativity. Great opportunity for landscape, architecture, portraiture, documentary, fashion, still life, conceptual projects, street, color and black and white, nature, night photography. This will be an exciting exhibition with a great diversity of photographs! For more info visit the Prospectus link.

Deadline: June 12, 2026

For more information: https://www.theartlist.com/black-box-gallery-photo-shoot-2026

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North Shore Arts Association - Exhibit New England CALL FOR ART!

North Shore Arts Association - Exhibit New England CALL FOR ART! Open Call to All New England Artists! Mark your calendars for our annual Exhibit New England Regional Juried Show! Applications are being accepted now through May 30th at 11:59 PM. The show will run from June 27 – July 24, 2026, and will be juried by local artists, Amy Sudarsky and Loren Doucette, with over $8,000 in awards. The Gala and Awards Ceremony will be held on Friday, June 26 from 6 - 8 PM. If you have questions, please contact us at links in prospectus!

Deadline: May 30, 2026

For more information: https://www.theartlist.com/north-shore-arts-association-exhibit-new-england-call-for-art

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Ferrara Showman Gallery - 30th Annual No Dead Artists: International Juried Exhibition of Contemporary Art

FERRARA SHOWMAN GALLERY proudly hosts the 30th iteration of our annual call for artists: NO DEAD ARTISTS International Juried Exhibition of Contemporary Art. The call is open through 15 JUNE 2026 and the exhibition participants are selected by an ever-changing group of three prestigious arts professionals. The exhibition is installed in the gallery 16 September and remains on view through 17 October, with an opening reception in conjunction with the Arts District New Orleans’ First Saturday Gallery Openings on 3 October 2026 from 5-8 pm. The NO DEAD ARTISTS exhibition was founded by Jonathan Ferrara in 1995 to give a voice to emerging artists. The exhibition’s name is derived from the old adage that artists never achieve success until they are dead. NO DEAD ARTISTS turns that notion on its head and often gives emerging artists their first break in the art world. In the 90’s, the exhibition was open to New Orleans-based artists and subsequently grew to include artists of Louisiana, then becoming a national juried exhibition in 2010. In 2014, Matthew Weldon Showman opened the call internationally, expanding the opportunity to artists everywhere and producing an even more diverse and compelling survey of Contemporary Art. Each year the gallery invites a panel of arts professionals to select the newest creative talents from around the world AND as the GRAND PRIZE, one jury-winning artist is awarded a solo exhibition at FERRARA SHOWMAN GALLERY to take place the following year.

Deadline: June 15, 2026

For more information: https://www.theartlist.com/ferrara-showman-gallery-30th-annual-no-dead-artists-international-juried-exhibition-of-contemporary-art

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North Shore Arts Association - Exhibit New England CALL FOR ART!

Open Call to All New England Artists! Mark your calendars for our annual Exhibit New England Regional Juried Show! Applications are being accepted now through May 30th at 11:59 PM. The show will run from June 27 – July 24, 2026, and will be juried by local artists, Amy Sudarsky and Loren Doucette, with over $8,000 in awards. The Gala and Awards Ceremony will be held on Friday, June 26 from 6 - 8 PM. If you have questions, please contact us at links in prospectus!

Deadline: May 30, 2026

For more information: https://www.theartlist.com/north-shore-arts-association-exhibit-new-england-call-for-art

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Decagon Gallery - THAT ONE PHOTOGRAPH the image you never left behind

Years pass. People change. Places disappear. Entire parts of our lives quietly fall out of reach. And yet, some photographs remain impossibly close to us. Not because they are perfect, but because they continue holding something we were never fully able to leave behind. Decagon Gallery invites photographers worldwide to submit one photograph only: the image they never left behind. The strongest photographs will feel lived rather than constructed. They may be quiet, unresolved, visually restrained, or emotionally difficult to explain. What matters is whether something remains inside it.

Awards: First Place: $500 plus a solo exhibition on the gallery's website. Second Place: $300. Third Place: $200.

Deadline: June 20, 2026

For more information: https://www.theartlist.com/decagon-gallery-that-one-photograph-the-image-you-never-left-behind

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SPRING* $1,800.00 Innovate Grants for Art + Photo - SPRING 2026 OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS

Innovate Grant is thrilled to introduce our newly increased award amounts of $1,800.00. Innovate Grant awards (2) $1,800.00 grants each quarter, to one Visual Artist and one Photographer. In addition, (18) honorable mentions (9 in art and 9 in photo), will be featured on our website and join a growing community of vibrant and talented artists. Innovate Grant's commitment extends beyond the grant cycle by promoting the work of selected winners and honorable mentions into the future.

Deadline: June 18, 2026

For more information: https://www.theartlist.com/spring-180000-innovate-grants-for-art-photo-2

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TheArtList.com’s Artist of the Month Contest for June 2026 is now open!

Step into the season with your latest work and a chance to be featured as our Artist or Photographer of the Month.⁠ ⁠ Why enter:⁠

Free to submit⁠

Gift card prizes from Jerry’s Artarama⁠

Exposure to a growing creative community⁠ ⁠ 🗓 Deadline: May 25⁠ 🔗 Enter here: https://woobox.com/x6wigs

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PhotoPlace Gallery - Open Call: A Celebration of Contemporary Photography

PhotoPlace Gallery - Open Call: A Celebration of Contemporary Photography - PhotoPlace Gallery invites photographers worldwide to submit work for Open Call: A Celebration of Contemporary Photography, a juried exhibition honoring the creativity, diversity, and evolving practice of photography today. Presented in celebration of World Photography Day (August 19th), this exhibition is one of PhotoPlace Gallery’s most open and inclusive calls of the year, welcoming all photographic subjects, styles, and processes. From landscape, portraiture, and documentary to conceptual, experimental, and alternative practices, photographers are encouraged to submit their strongest work. Whether your work is traditional or experimental, personal or universal, this exhibition is an opportunity to showcase where your photography is today.

Deadline: June 08, 2026

For more information: https://www.theartlist.com/photoplace-gallery-open-call-a-celebration-of-contemporary-photography

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May 2026 Artist of the Month - Viewer’s Choice Winner: Emmanuel Echerue

Your vote made it happen. Celebrating this month’s Viewer’s Choice winner and the incredible support from our creative community. Think your work could be next?

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May 2026 Artist of the Month - 3rd Place Winner: Gary Lewis

Feeling inspired this season? You could be next.

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May 2026 Artist of the Month - 2nd Place Winner: David Cicerone

Feeling inspired this season? You could be next.

Join the Artist of the Month Contest for a chance to be featured on TheArtList.com and win a Jerry’s Artarama gift certificate.

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